St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-10
He ACTS LIKE An ANIMAL,
How Some Of the Noted Jail B0arders
Behave Themselves.
NICHOLAS KILL is SLEEPY.
An Unusually Sullen Nature---Some Are
Taking Course of Literary
Studies.

Some prisoners in the county Jail have
propensity to pass away their time
singing several varieties of songs and
pacing restlesSly to and fro along the
corridors while waiting their trials. Not
so with Nicholas Kill, who is held for
the murder of Jacob Kohn. near the fair
groundS-a foul deed still fresh in the
minds of GLOBE readers. He does little
else than sleep and eat, and eat and
sleep. His low, animal-like forehead,
his swarthy, sallOw complexion, and his
eXpressionless dark brown eyes betray
no sense of moral feeling, of remOrse or
apprehension. He is short, stout, ugly
and silent, seldom saying anything, in
deed never using his voice except to eX-
press wish for the qualification of his
physical needs. When he was arralgned
for trial he went to the courtroom as If
he were going to supper. He and the
Canadian fOrger, HERES, occupy a
cell together on the south side.
Never vet has he been awake for break
fast. The turkeys invariably unlock
the cells at Z a. m, and breakfast is
brought in between and So'clock. Kill
sleeps until 10 o'clock, letting his part
ner, HERES, fetch his breakfast to him.
Then he goes to sleep until noon. Stay
ing up just long enough to eat dinner,
he takes another long sieSta, which
usually lasts until near supper time.
After supper he sleeps until 10 O'Clock
next morning. One day is as another
with him. He would make a good sub
ject for phrenOlOgist dead, or alive.
ONE WHO READS.
McDOnough, charged with the murder
of Mcnamara, in West st. Paul, is gen.
orally pretty quiet. His trial comes up
in December. He reads most of the
time and walks around great deal. He
is tall and slim, with scar near his
right eye.
Prussian Frank, the brewery safe
blower, for whom Officer Getchel and
Mccarthy made it hot, Is on his good
behavior, and, like McDOnOugh, he does
a great deal of reading. The Jail library
contains a number of volumes, which
had become too old and too much worn
for the city public library. The liter
ature embraces several varieties of
fiction, and includes some good standard
works. Frank, however, likes a New
York family story paper whenever he
can get it. He is a rather tough look
ing fellow, with dark complexion and
brown eyes.
Frank Schafer, who is implicated with
O'Brien. for the highway robbery of
John WAGNER. reads, plays cards, and
enjoys himself generally without much
noise. He and O'Brien occupy cell
together up stairs. O'Brien is one of
the nOisest prisoners, singing, talking,
jumping around and now and then con-
senting to read something. Henry
Schiel, the turnkey accused of the rape
of the ZenS insane woman, is now help
ing Jailer Petersen, and makes very
good waiter at meal time. He is cheer
full and would carry off the medal for
good behavior.
SHAVE ONCE A WEEK.
The prisoners have little to do but
eat, sleep and enjoy themselves in the
best way they can. No tools are al
lowed them, for they would be apt to
employ them upon the iron cage. They
clean up their cells and corridors and
scrub out thoroughly twice week.
Every forenoon between breakfast and
dinner each prisoner fixes up his own
cell. On Saturday razor is furnished
to them, and all who desire may enjoy
a weekly shave and clean up, and don
their washing, which goes out dirty
Monday and comes back clean Satur-
day. A general change of towels and
pillow cases takes place every Monday.
Fanny, the greyhound slut presented
to Sheriff Richter by Landers, the sharp
swindler who recently escaped from
Saltwater, is quite favorite with the
prisoners.